Psychology: Question 1



Psychology: Question 1

Introduction

As, the study of psychology involves scientific study of human behaviors and mental functions, so it has the main goal for making clear understandings of groups and individuals by both researching cases and establishing general principles, and collectively it aims for benefitting the society. In this paper, there will be a discussion regarding the understanding of human psyche that how it contributes towards human behavior and how it is then impacted by means of both culture and nature. Secondly, there will a discussion about natural selection inclusive of its two criteria of staying alive and reproduction, its importance, as well as different strategies of reproduction in men and women. Thirdly, it will make contrast between different ways of culture understanding and its influences, as well as the description that how the ideas and laws are shared through different cultures. Fourthly, there will be an explanation about the same type of people everywhere as they become an issue for social psychologists. Lastly, it will discuss that how the people are different and same across different cultures and a contrast between human as social animal and human as cultural animal.

Discussion

Human psyche which consists of various features of nature, culture, language, society, mind, and behavior have been found in all people throughout the history of human beings. The better understanding of human psyche will help us in understanding the human behavior as this understanding is the broadest among all the sub-disciplines of the psychology as it seeks out a conceptual linked understanding of both the human nature and the human cultural differences. Some inimitable set of problems are posed by cultural differences and helps in understanding an individual's personality. A set of theoretical tools are presented by evolutionary psychology in order to make integration between both the concepts. It requires a pervasive cultural dichotomy versus the biology for acknowledging the human nature, and also analyzing that several complex mechanisms of psychology that are deliberately activated in human mind depends on the cultural contexts. Culture comes under the foundation of evolved psychology and cannot be comprehended without understanding the mechanisms of human mind (Arnold, 1869).

Natural selection is the irregular process by which some traits of biology become somewhat general in a population as a differential reproduction function of their bearers. It is the chief system of evolution. In this gradual process, animals and plants with some traits are ...